Extreme Inequality Is A Threat To Free Speech – OpEd
I was a student in the late 2000s when I had my first brush with “cancel culture.” A campus group
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Author: Peter Certo
Peter Certo is the editor of Foreign Policy In Focus. and writer based at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he edits the institute’s Foreign Policy In Focus website and serves as deputy editor of the non-profit editorial syndicate OtherWords. He’s a former associate editor of Right Web, a project that monitors the efforts of foreign policy hawks and neoconservatives to influence U.S. foreign policy, and he helped coordinate the first annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
Website: http://fpif.org/
Articles by Peter Certo :
There’s No Debate Over Debt: Only About Priorities – OpEd
The news sure makes it sound like President Biden and Republicans have been haggling over the national debt. But that’s
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A Renewed Yemen Truce Is No Substitute For Justice – OpEd
The news that Saudi officials, who have been leading a bombing campaign in Yemen for eight years, met with the
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20 Years On: What Did The Iraq War Truly Cost? – OpEd
Most of us who were alive then remember where we were on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. As we
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Republican ‘Solutions’ Will Make Inflation Worse – OpEd
My wife and I recently had the tremendous misfortune of needing to buy a car. Car prices, you may know, reached
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A Few Magnificent Things That Happened In 2021 – OpEd
It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s the pandemic that
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Greed Is Prolonging The Pandemic – OpEd
Stop me if this sounds familiar. It’s been kind of a hard year, but I felt optimistic about the holidays.
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Biden Is Right To End The War In Afghanistan – OpEd
The scenes from Afghanistan are heartrending. I can’t imagine the desperation of someone who clings to a military airplane as
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We Can Have The Filibuster Or Democracy, But Not Both – OpEd
The American political system is complicated, but fixing it doesn’t have to be. Voters of all stripes broadly agree on
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Who’s Afraid Of ‘Socialism’? – OpEd
For decades, Republicans have painted anyone left of Barry Goldwater as a “socialist.” Why? Because for a generation raised on
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